John UK wrote:
Ahhhhh, give me the warmth of a man like John Ryle,
Or someone like Charles Spurgeon,
REGENERATION AND BAPTISM
BY REV. JOHN CHARLES RYLE10. “But do not all infants receive baptism worthily...? and are they not consequently all regenerated, as a matter of course, the moment they are baptized?”
“Certainly not. No infant is of itself worthy to receive grace, because, as the Catechism says, it is “born in sin and a child of wrath.” It can only be received into the Church and baptized on the faith and profession of its parents or sponsors.”
Teaching of Thomas Aquinas who was a Catholic theologian 1225–1274.
“And therefore Christ’s Passion was not only a sufficient but a superabundant atonement for the sins of the human race; according to 1 John 2:2: “He is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part 3, Q 48.2.
1 John 2:22 “He is the propitiation for our sins, for some efficaciously, but for all sufficiently, because the price of his blood is sufficient for the salvation of all: but it has no efficacy except for the elect because of an impediment.” Thomas Aquina, “Commentaria 1 Tim. 2:1-6a,” in Omnes D. Pauli Apostoli Ep
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